To reduce special-interest money in Washington

To my dear friends on the Left: You can’t have it both ways.

You say that you want to reduce the undue influence that big money can wield in Washington, D.C. But, your actions belie the truth.

You see… the question we need to be asking ourselves is, “Why do companies and lobbying organizations spend gagillions of dollars in D.C. in the first place? What is it they are trying to accomplish?”

The answer is not difficult: They spend this money because they are trying to influence legislation.

When the Right hears this, we know that the right response is, “Well, reduce legislation!” Reduce the influence of government. Reduce the power in the hands of our elected representatives. That is, reduce the size of government – the laws that it can enact, and the number of agents and agencies acting on behalf of the government to carry out that law.

If you reduce the scope of just what falls under the jurisdiction of governmental control, you will most definitely reduce the amount of money that will be spent corrupting that governmental control.

Unfortunately, the Left thinks that the best way to douse a gasoline fire is by applying more gasoline. They think the way to reduce the corruption of money in government is by establishing additional (infinite) layers of bureaucracy in government: more laws, more regulation, more committees, more agencies, more agents.

They seem to say, “If only we could construct the perfect amalgam of power, people and resources, then we will achieve both governmental control and protection from governmental corruption.”

*sigh*

Not all legislation is bad. Some of it is quite necessary. But, we must shrink the amount of governmental control if ever we are to reduce the amount of special-interest money flowing into Washington.

And, for the record, we’re not just talking about Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Business. We’re also talking about Big Education, Big Labor, and Big Tort Law.

Of course, maybe that explains the Left’s willful avoidance of the underlying issue.